Fellow appointed Chief Scientific Advisor

On 3 April the Prime Minister named Professor Mark Welland FRS FREng, Fellow of St John's, as the new Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence. Professor Welland, Head of the Nanoscience Group at the Nanoscience Centre and Professor of Nanotechnology at the Department of Engineering, took up his new appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser on Monday 7 April. He will continue his innovative research at the University, splitting his time between Cambridge and London.